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Cleaning Up Header Bars

• rektide 5y ago
  there's a lot of ui here i like. making window bars that boast good content, that show available actions, is a great way to avoid making each modal or each window find it's own design patterns for where to feature it's core actions.
• naetius 5y ago
  Darn, even GNOME jumped on the let's-make-the-UI-flat bandwagon. To be honest I'm lost for words here: what's pushing this trend to make the actionable items blend with the content in such a confusing way? I understand modernization but I'd really love to get a UX designer point of view here: what's the problem being tackled away by flattening all the actionable items here? What are we gaining in terms of usability?
  • squabble 5y ago
    > Making the style feel lighter and reducing visual noise is a major goal for the style refresh > if applied carelessly, it can also make certain layouts ambiguous. For example, a text-only button with no background would look exactly same as a window title. To prevent that, we only remove background from buttons that we can be confident won’t look confusing without it — for example, buttons containing a single icon.